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Updated: June 7, 2025
You know that American millionaire, van Koppen, and the scandal attached to his peculiar habits? It made me wonder, only yesterday " But at this juncture the tiresome old boatman lifted up his voice once more. "See that high cliff, gentlemens? Funny thing happen there, very funny. Dam-fool foreigner here, he collect flowers.
"Hee's not fonny dat she bre'ks t'rough," he said. "I 'ave see dem bre'k t'rough two, t'ree tam in de day, but nevaire dat she get drown! W'en dose dam-fool can't t'ink wit' hees haid sacre Dieu! eet is so easy, to chok' dat cheval she make me cry wit' de eye!" "I suppose it was a good deal my fault," commented Radway, doubtfully shaking his head, after Laveque had left the office.
So Pat and Henrys were not discharged were not instructed to "get their time." Fabian Laveque promptly demanded his. "Sacre bleu!" said he to old Jackson. "I no work wid dat dam-fool dat no t'ink wit' hees haid." This deprived the camp at once of a teamster and a team.
I'd have told my mother before she went back to Ballyards!" "I'll write and tell her myself," said Eleanor. "I'd like to tell her myself!" "I'm going to be married," John said to Hinde that night. "I thought as much," Hinde replied. "Why?" "Well, when a man does one dam-fool thing, he generally follows it up with another. You lose your job on the Sensation, and then you get engaged to be married.
So a new phrase was added to the vocabulary of "dam-fool talk". "Bongie cowtoos" was the name of the operation; for a couple Of years thereafter, whenever Corydon and Thyrsis wished to be let alone to discuss the problems of the universe, they would get the baby a hammer and some nails and a board, and repeat that magic formula, and the problem was solved.
Suddenly the thin, high, cultured voice addressed him whimsically sarcastic but not altogether unkindly: "The Sergeant-Major" the gold-rimmed pince-nez were swung to an elevation indicating that individual and the fair moustache was twirled pensively "the Sergeant-Major reports that er for the past six months you have been conducting yourself around the Post with fair average" the suave tones hardened "that you have wisely refrained from indulging your youthful fancies in any more such er dam-fool antics, Sir, as characterized your merry but brief career at the Gleichen detachment, so er I have decided to give you another chance.
They made new words, also; they invented a whole language for use in these times of illumination, and which Thyrsis denoted by the name of "dam-fool talk". One was always discovering new qualities in Corydon. She had as many moods as the lake by which they lived, and it seemed to him that with each mood her whole personality changed she would even look like another being.
Thyrsis had a vision of him as he would be in that home: a brown and freckled country boy, with what were known, in the dialect of "dam-fool talk", as "yagged panties and bare feets". But Corydon would protest at that picture. "It's all right," she said, "to put up with ugliness if you have to. But what's the use of making a fetish of it?" "It wouldn't be ugliness," replied he.
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